GE Healthcare introduces Carescape platform for wireless patient
monitoring
9 April 2009
GE Healthcare has introduced its new Carescape Telemetry platform, a
wireless patient monitoring system for hospitals. Built on GE Carescape
Enterprise Access and leveraging GE ApexPro CH Telemetry, it enables
hospitals to simultaneously leverage multiple telemetry frequencies and
co-ordinate cell phone, Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies on one
infrastructure.
It provides integration between ApexPro CH Transmitter, Carescape
Enterprise Access, Carescape Telemetry Server, Carescape T14 Transmitter
and other components of the ApexPro Telemetry System.
The platform provides dual-band capabilities enabling hospitals to
simultaneously leverage the two protected frequency bands — 600 MHz and
1.4 GHz — in Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS) with a single,
central telemetry system.
Hospitals can monitor up to 438 patients while ensuring that critical
patient data is sent securely without interference. Hospitals using the
ApexPro CH telemetry transmitters have the flexibility to leverage the
existing 600 MHz frequency band transmitters and expand into the 1.4 GHz
frequency band with the Carescape Telemetry T14 Transmitter on Carescape
Enterprise Access.
Powered by MobileAccess and its Wire-it-Once infrastructure,
Carescape Enterprise Access unites hospital wireless networks into one
infrastructure, helping to eliminate coverage drop-out and downtime. As
a hospital’s wireless needs grow, this Wire-it-Once infrastructure can
help reduce the costs and infection-control issues associated with
installing new cables and antennas.
“At Brigham and Women’s, getting patients ambulating as soon as
possible, and safely, is one of the hospital’s core clinical focuses to
help improve patient outcomes and potentially reduce lengths of stay.
Wireless patient monitoring, enabled with a robust telemetry
infrastructure, is a key technology tool that helps us achieve this
goal,” said L. Michael Fraai, Director, Biomedical Engineering, Brigham
and Women’s Hospital.
“We are providing telemetry coverage and ensuring continuity of
patient monitoring anywhere in the facility so that our patients can
ambulate faster and clinicians can monitor patient vital signs.”
“Today, as hospitals are treating sicker patients, clinicians want
the flexibility to wirelessly monitor a growing number of patients
throughout the continuum of care,” said David Ataide, Vice President and
General Manager of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions and Diagnostic
Cardiology. “With the GE Carescape telemetry solution, hospitals can
further expand telemetry coverage throughout the hospital, allowing
clinicians to monitor more patients and further enhance patient safety.”
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